Workbox for domestic use



- R K.ELSALL;. WORKBOX FOR DOMESTIC USE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-2h 1920.

Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

UNITED STATES RACHEL KELSALL, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

woItKBoX son nor rescue use.

Application filed December 21, 1920.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, RAonnL KnLsALL, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Messrs. Cox & Co, J Department, 16 Char-lug Cross,London, S. XV. 1, in the county of London, in. England, have invented anew and useful Improvement in VVorkboxes for Domestic Use, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to work boxes for containing tapes, silks,cottons, buttons, pins, and the like, for general domestic use.

My invention. consists of improvements, such as construction of feetbeneath the plat form formed by a continuation of the sides of the chestof drawers each foot having two horizontal slots cut therein. Transverseslots are made in the platform in order to receive the feet and the endof the vertical board. N ear the end of this said board are cut twohorizontal slots corresponding with the slots provided in the feet abovedescribed. The object of the slots in the vertical board and feet is toreceive two strips or laths for keying rigidly together the feet, andthe vertical board and the work box platform. The feet above describedare an extension of the sides of the chest of drawers and are fixed tothe underside of the platform by means of angle plates secured byrivets. The body cover may be transposed into a basket for holdingneedle work by means of the cover or top being made removable so that itcan be removed and inserted in the bottom of the body cover, the saidbody having two loosely pivoted handles.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. l, is a front elevation of the chestof the drawers; Fig. 2, is a side elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 8, is a planof the bottom of the platform; Fig. 4-, is a plan of the top of Fig. 1;Fig. 5, is an elevation of the body cover with loosely pivoted handles,and Fig. (5, is a sectional elevation of the body cover having theremovable top or cover inserted in its base in order to be used as abasket for holding needle work.

My invention consists of such improvements that are used in conjunctionwith my former invention claimed and described in my specification,Serial No. 319,022, dated August 2nd, 1919..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

Serial No. 432,293.

In Fig. 41-, is shown the division (4 in which the movable board 1 withspikes is inserted, the said board resting against the solid back Z) ofthe chest of drawers. Adjoining the bottom end of the movable board 1, Iout two slots 0 in order to be keyed to the platform (Z by means oflongitudinal strips or laths c as shown in Figs. 1, and 8.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is shown the platform (Z mounted on feet 9 formedby the extension of the sides 2, and 3, passing through slots 4, and 5,cut in the platform (Z, the said feet 9 being fixed to the platform (3by means of angle plates 7 rivet-ted together. These said feet 9 areprovided with two slots 71. in each in order to receive the strips orlaths e for keying up the bottom end of the feet 9 and the movablevertical board 1 when it is passed through the transverse slot 2' cutcentrally in the platform (Z thus fixing the feet g and board 1 rigidlyto the platform (Z.

In another modification the body cover 2' is transposed into a basket asshown in Fig. 6, by means of the removable top or cover 7' beinginserted rigidly but reniovably into the bottom of the body cover i thesaid body cover 2' having two loosely pivoted handles 70. This aforesaidbasket is intended to hold or contain any needle work or the like.

I claim: 1. A work box provided with a chest of drawers and a plat-form,the platform having a middle slot and end slots; feet on the chest ofdrawers, said feet passing through the end slots of the platform andbeing them selves provided with transverse slots below the platform; aboard extending vertically through the middle slot of the platform andhaving transverse slots thcrethrough below the platform and stripspassed through the slots in the feet and the vertical board.

2. A work box provided with feet, a platform fixed to the underside ofthe box-by means of angle plates, and a vertically arranged board havingslots in the lower end thereof; the feet having transverse slotscorresponding to the slots in the board and strips inserted through theslots in feet and board.

RACHEL KELSALL.

